After the first round of doxycycline, my labs were showing improvement (see War II: Battle I post)! Now it’s time to hit the stubborn ones with the big guns 💪🏻 We are moving to a combination of vancomycin and rocephin.
The first dose was agonizingly slow, over 3 hours on one bag! One if the most common side effects of vancomycin being injected too fast is called “red man syndrome” and literally makes you look and feel like an umpa lumpa from the chocolate factory! Thankfully I had no reaction so I was able to drop each bag over two hours going forward.
These were the longest days I’ve had at the clinic so far. I was hooked up to IVs from 8:45am until 5:15pm, every day nonstop. When you add in the alternative treatments I do as well, colonics, infrared sauna, lymph drainage training, supplements, etc. each day of just treatment protocols was about 10 hours. I was exhausted by the end of each day! BUT each morning I felt the best I had in over a year – until I started dripping the kill meds again. That one hour from 7:45-8:45 was the most light at the end of the tunnel I had seen in 18 months.
After the two week round we tested the Lyme again and showed further progress, but some very stubborn strains as well! Next round is back to killing mold, but when we return to Lyme, we will be focusing on Bartonella (co-infection) and resistant neurological Lyme strains.
Back to my frienamy amphoteracine!